Category Archives: IAAC event

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Li Xiangning, as part of the IAAC Spring Lecture Series 2015, discussing the transformation of Shanghai’s modern city, towards building its current contemporary configuration.

Li Xiangning is full professor in history, theory and criticism at Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is also Assistant Dean and Director of International Programs, and guest editor of Time + Architecture, a leading architectural magazines in China. He has published widely on contemporary architecture and urbanism in China and he was a visiting scholar at MIT. In 2009 Li Xiangning was the UFI fellow at MAK Center of Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, and Erasmus Mundus visiting professor at TU Darmstadt. He has lectured in universities and institutes including Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Southern California, and Canadian Center for Architecture. He was appointed as director for Shanghai Contemporary Architecture Culture Center (Museum) in 2010 and has recently been co-curator of the 2013 Shenzhen Biennale.

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Computational couture looks at the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing (typical of haute couture) through the lens of a systemic approach, extending the sartorial techniques with 3D modeling and computation-based approaches developed in Rhinoceros and the visual programming environment Grasshopper.
Aim of the workshop is to exert, infuse and expand the sartorial sensibilities to body proportions and dress making into an algorithmic approach that loops through design and fabrication by means of laser cutting and 3d printing for the design and production of a garment.
Participants will be divided in teams focusing on specific aspects of the garment related to the production technique (laser cutting or 3D printing).

FEE FOR PARTICIPANTS

Early bird (until 4/5): 250 €
Full fee (from 5/5 until 15/5): 350 €

The fee includes materials and fabrication. Plane tickets and accommodation are not  included in the fee.

REGISTRATION (until 15/5/2015)

For registration please e-mail at :
beyond@iaac.net

MORE INFO HERE

Tonight, as part of the Spring Lecture series 2015, we had the pleasure of hosting Farshid Moussavi who discussed the Function of Style, title of her last book, and part of the Function triolgy: ‘The Function of Ornament’, ‘The Function of Forms’, and ‘the Function of Style’ based on her research and teaching at Harvard.

What is the function of style today? If the 1970s were defined by Postmodernism and the 1980s by Deconstruction, how do we characterize the architecture of the 1990s to the present? Some built forms transmit affects of curvilinearity, others of crystallinity; some transmit multiplicity, others unity; some transmit cellularity, others openness; some transmit dematerialization, others weight. Does this immense diversity reflect a lack of common purpose? In this book, acclaimed architect and theorist Farshid Moussavi argues that this diversity should not be mistaken for an eclecticism which is a product of external forces.

The Function of Style presents the architectural landscape as an intricate web in which individual buildings are the product of ideas which have been appropriated from other buildings designed for the different activities of everyday life, to produce singular buildings which are related to one another but also different.

Moussavi argues that by embracing everyday life as a raw material architects can change the conventions of how buildings are assembled, to ground the aesthetic experience of the buildings in the micro-politics of the everyday.

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Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Giovanna Carnevali, Director of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, as the first of the Spring Lecture Series for 2015. Giovanna discussed contemporary architecture through the experience accumulated thanks to the Mies van der Rohe Award since 1988.

Europe is made up of cities, and architecture is what makes cities. Today we find ourselves in a moment of historical change, and it becomes necessary to understand the role of architecture in this transitioning Europe, and become aware of the evolution over the previous decades.

During a time when a great variety of media bombards daily with an overconsumption of information, there is, albeit paradoxically, a need for a cross interpretation that will allow us to see past the cacophony of information.

The Mies van der Rohe Award has been a catalyst for the interpretation of the state of architecture for 26 years already, fostering the biannual compilation of the contemporary European architectural production. Conscious of the current historical change, the Fundació is changing in scale, acting from Barcelona towards Europe as an element capable of processing all of the knowledge that the Prize offers. The Fundació generates data, connects key players and encourages the debate on what role architecture should have in relation with the contemporary social European necessities.

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